Faculty: 15 core faculty members actively teach and conduct research. Many are recipients of prestigious awards, including a Nobel Prize (2002) and two elections to the National Academy of Engineering (2004 and 2006).

Students: 32 current graduate students benefit from our intimate size, engaging faculty, and broad institutional strengths in engineering, science, medicine, and humanities. Our graduates have become leaders in academia, industry, and government.

Research: Students choose a Ph.D. project and one or more research advisor(s) by the end of Year 1.

Qualifying Exam: Students submit a written Prospectus motivating and describing their Ph.D. project, and defend their Prospectus via an oral Area Exam, by the beginning of Year 3.

Thesis: Students submit and publicly defend a Dissertation describing their research project and reporting key findings and conclusions.

Support: All admitted Ph.D. students receive full tuition and fee waiver, a generous stipend, and health insurance.

We invite applications from students with bachelor degrees in any field of engineering, or in related areas such as chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics, and environmental science. Admission to the Ph.D. program is offered on a competitive basis to highly qualified students showing unique potential.

Aurora Edington

Undergraduate Alumna, Chemical & Environmental Engineering

"As an engineering student at Yale, I truly benefitted from both my rigorous education in environmental engineering, while also taking phenomenal classes in areas including global affairs, policy, and law."